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Subject: Re: Why does Gandalf 5 crash in Fritz 7?

Author: Manfred Meiler

Date: 11:00:26 08/17/02

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On August 17, 2002 at 13:55:27, Sally Weltrop wrote:

>On August 17, 2002 at 13:07:39, Chessfun wrote:
>
>>On August 17, 2002 at 13:03:36, Chessfun wrote:
>>
>>>On August 17, 2002 at 09:47:54, Sally Weltrop wrote:
>>>
>>>>I'm running WinXP.
>>>>
>>>>Here is the Gandalf 5.init"
>>>>
>>>>CommandLine = nodebug xfritz xboard
>>>>Engine      = Gandalf 5
>>>>Debug       = False
>>>>
>>>>[Support]
>>>>AnalyzeMode = True
>>>>PonderMode  = True
>>>>CastleAndEP = False
>>>>
>>>>ENG is in the \ENGINES dir.
>>>>
>>>>everything goes well it makes it's move out of book and then when it starts to
>>>>ponder it crashes.
>>>
>>>The problem is probably in your gandalf5.res file
>>>Here is mine;
>>>
>>>LEARNING 1
>>>DRAW 6 50
>>>CONTEMPT 0
>>>RESIGN 7 6
>>>TB D:\Tablebases\
>>>BOOKPATH D:\Program Files\ChessBase\Engines\Gandalf5
>>>HASH 104
>>>TBCACHE 8
>>>
>>>Naturally you can make it a UCI engine as Manfred suggests and take my word for
>>>it he is an expert !!
>>>
>>>Though I haven't used 5.0 for ages as 5.1 came out as a fix to 5.0
>>>
>>>Sarah.
>>
>>Though I will confirm it runs in Fritz 7, just tried it.
>
>I even tried the editing RES file. On the bookpath is this the book from
>Chessbase or Gandalf's native book? I have been trying the chessbase book. it
>still crashes


No, you have to set the path to your folder with Gandalf's native book.

Manfred



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